It's amazing how excited you can get for a match up that up until a week ago, didn't even seem viable. All NBA season seemed to be leading up to a clash between San Antonio and Golden State. The old guard versus the new school. Pop, Duncan and the Spurs trying to come up with answers to a Warriors team who would not stop asking questions. Questions like; will Steph Curry end up taking three pointers from the stands?
And then..
The window was closing fast on OKC. If it was still open at all. That's what I thought anyway. In a Western Conference packed with potential contenders, Oklahoma City would frustratingly just have to be content with waiting. Only with Kevin Durant constantly being linked away from Chesapeake Energy Arena, that might not be enough. Sometimes it's not enough to wait for a chance. You have to take it. That's what the Thunder did against San Antonio.
But they can't beat Golden State can they? Based on what I've seen in the last twelve months, they have a shot. After having just found a real groove and knocking off a team that's just won sixty plus game in the regular season, confidence will be sky high and will not want to take their foot off the gas now. That's what I find so tantalizing.
Both Golden State and OKC at their best play at such a pace that both teams butting heads at that pace, it looks like we're gonna see an unstoppable force coming up against, well, an unstoppable force. And I don't just mean Russell Westbrook's dress sense. Game 1. Western Conference finals. Can't wait.
